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- From: npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu (NATHAN PHILLIP STEWART)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: slanted frets on fingerboard
- Keywords: fingerboard, fretboard, frets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.194404.28362@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:44:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan28.170916.10827@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu (NATHAN PHILLIP STEWART)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- Lines: 15
- Originator: npstewar@c00480-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
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- It sounds like someone built a guitar with a graduated scale length. (It also
- sounds like some luthier got really loaded :-) I can imagine the headache of
- doing this, since the equation governing fret placement is an exponential one,
- there couldn't be too many solutions to 6 different scale lengths where the fret
- position on each string allows frets to be placed this way as opposed to 6
- fret-lets per half tone (giving 132 frets on a normal 22 fret length fingerboard
- ) I guess there'd be a bit more slop in intontation than we're accustomed to on
- normal fingerboards.
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- I can see why they'd want to, maybe to give a tight bottom and a looser feel up
- top without usuing unusual string guages. I think I remember seing this guitar
- in guitar player a couple of years back. Anybody got that issue?
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- Nate
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